Cy Hersch News Today

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Blatant lie. his reporting has met with strong pushback from washington. the pentagon calling his piece largely fabrication and saying there are too many inaccuracies to list each one. joining me now is investigative reporter, seymour hersch. all right. mr. hersch, this piece is constructed largely around -- not exclusively, but largely around a single unnamed source. hes cited about 55 times in the piece. and the big question everyone has had after this piece landed last night is can you hang w...

Long list of claims made by investigative reporter, cy hersch. hersch also contends, among other things, the u.s. told the pakistanis about the raid ahead of time. hersch calls the contention leaders were not informed of the raid beforehand, quote, the most blatant lie. his reporting has met with strong pushback from washington. the pentagon calling his piece largely fabrication and saying there are too many inaccuracies to list each one. joining me now is investigative reporter, seymour hersch....

Into a new scenario. and thats why if you remember in the first couple days, there were all these stories later retracted about bin laden had an ak-47. >> there was a lot of assertions made about how bin laden died that were later changed by the white house, quite frankly, and explicitly. >> go ahead. it was written of the fog of war. it was a desperate attempt to try and make sure everything the president said was covered. there were papers, certainly, in the abbottabad. there was no computer t...

Bin laden has always centered around the cia tracking bin laden to his walled compound in pakistan by meticulously tracing his courier. nbc news reports further citing those two sources, plus a third at the pakistani government knew where bin laden was hiding all along. nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent, andrea mitchell, is part of the investigative team that has been running down this blockbuster reporting. well talk to her in just a moment. but first, those two major assertions, the...